It's still a blockbuster. I can't see how it is muted much by the fact that the quid pro quo was first offered by the FBI. It is still a fact that the State Department, for an obvious and extremely illegitimate reason (i.e. protecting Hillary's candidacy), wanted to prevent as many emails as possible from being classified. It also shows that the State Department, which should have remained neutral with respect to the email scandal, saw itself as Hillary's advocate and acted accordingly. We should assume that almost all of its actions were motivated by the same goal. Indeed, I think it has been pretty clear from the start that the State Department, aside from its IG, has gone out of its way to obstruct the investigation of Hillary's email scandal.
I'll note also that Patrick Kennedy didn't shoot down the quid pro quo idea immediately (as any honest State Department employee would have done). He clearly entertained it. It only didn't happen because the FBI realized, in the end, that it would have been inappropriate.
While none of this bore directly on Hillary, it does speak to the State Department's role in protecting Hillary from scrutiny, as well as the ways in which the FBI could be enticed, or at least pressured, to overlook some of Hillary's misfeasance.
